Seacom restores East Africa cable operations
Seacom has restored services to its customers following the completion of subsea repair operations on its East Africa (S1) cable. The physical repair of the subsea cable was completed on 31 May and the process to restore and test client services back to the original...
Gitex Africa Morocco 2024: It’s a wrap …
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Google invests in African innovator
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Applications open for youth leadership award
Global Citizen, with global technology partner Cisco, has announced that applications are open for the fourth annual Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award. Established in 2018, the Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award is an annual award that...
Sage to acquire Brightpearl
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Research funding falls well short of what’s needed to end TB
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Apple shipments spur META wearables market
According to the latest insights from International Data Corporation (IDC), the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) wearable devices market includes posted a year-on-year growth rate of 2% in units and 25,4% in value in Q3 2021. The latest edition of the firm's...
African digital workers will do more to gain opportunities
Digital talent in Africa leads the pack in looking to change jobs in the near future for better career opportunities: 73% will switch roles to advance their careers, compared to 63% globally. Career advancement is the main driver for technology employees to move jobs,...
New risks for managers in 2022
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Cybercrime peaks over popular shopping seasons
A massive 66% of South African organisations have experienced technology downtime after a cyber security incident, with 85% of those confirming that these incidents happened during their busiest operational periods. This is against the backdrop of nearly half of South...
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Edutainment apps see growth in SA
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Miro named an official Sunell distributor
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Ericsson announces EAA semi-finalists
Ericsson has announced the semi-finalists for the annual Ericsson Application Awards with Team SOP from Nigeria and Team WorkMode from South Africa named as semi-finalists in the company category and the student category respectively. Team SOP developed an application...
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 released
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ICT security can help build businesses
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4Di Privaca sole distributor of Phish5
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Managing the mobile enterprise
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Trend Micro earns NNS Lab high score
Trend Micro's Deep Discovery 3.5 has earned the top score for overall breach detection rate in NSS Labs’ Breach Detection Systems (BDS) Group Test. Trend Micro also had the second lowest cost of ownership among the field. The NSS Security Value Map and Comparative...
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